Ethnic church meets megachurch : Indian American Christianity in motion
East Indian Americans Ethnicity Emigration and immigration Big churches
New York University Press
2017
EISBN 1479845477
Indian American Christianity in motion.
Syrian Christian encounters with colonial missionaries and Indian nationalism.
The role of the church in migration and settlement.
Coupling versus decoupling religion and ethnicity in the first and second generations.
Class, culture, and the performance of gendered Christianity.
Religion, social incorporation, and civic engagement among generations.
International migration and its impact on the Mar Thoma denomination.
Transnational processes, immigrant incorporation, and religious.
Traces the religious adaptation of members of an important Indian Christian church - the Mar Thoma denomination - as they make their way in the United States. This text exposes how a new paradigm of ethnicity and religion, and the megachurch phenomenon, is shaping contemporary immigrant religious institutions, specifically Indian American Christianity. Kurien draws on multi-site research in the US and India to provide a global perspective on religion by demonstrating the variety of ways that transnational processes affect religious organisations and the lives of members, both in the place of destination and of origin.
Syrian Christian encounters with colonial missionaries and Indian nationalism.
The role of the church in migration and settlement.
Coupling versus decoupling religion and ethnicity in the first and second generations.
Class, culture, and the performance of gendered Christianity.
Religion, social incorporation, and civic engagement among generations.
International migration and its impact on the Mar Thoma denomination.
Transnational processes, immigrant incorporation, and religious.
Traces the religious adaptation of members of an important Indian Christian church - the Mar Thoma denomination - as they make their way in the United States. This text exposes how a new paradigm of ethnicity and religion, and the megachurch phenomenon, is shaping contemporary immigrant religious institutions, specifically Indian American Christianity. Kurien draws on multi-site research in the US and India to provide a global perspective on religion by demonstrating the variety of ways that transnational processes affect religious organisations and the lives of members, both in the place of destination and of origin.
